Journal of American Studies 46 (2012): 461–480. This article analyzes aquarium displays depicting the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico to see the ways in which offshore oil structures have been naturalized. It focuses on aquariums in Texas and Louisiana that use oil structures as part of their public displays of…
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10 (2012): 178–179. This peer-reviewed letter makes a case for integrating policy history into scientific recommendations for rigs-to-reefs programs by examining the failed attempt to make the Odin platform into Norway’s first rig-to-reef project. Available online (open access)
Ocean and Coastal Management 58 (2012): 57-61. This article focuses on how the debate over the deepwater disposal of offshore oil and gas installations has been central to shaping North Sea artificial reef policy. Through a close empirical historical study, this article reconstructs how Greenpeace’s protest of the deepwater disposal of…
History and Technology 25 (December 2009): 343-364. This article explores how in the years after 1980 a spectrum of historical actors came to see petroleum platforms in the Gulf of Mexico as a necessary part of the Gulf ecosystem and how such views affected platform removal policies. Through a discourse analysis…
Solutions Journal 4 (Sept 2013) This article argues that environmental discourses develop on an international stage at a particular moment in time and can create associations between issues that are not directly related. When Greenpeace, by occupying the Brent Spar, turned all eyes on the issue of dumping oil installations at…
This section lists my research dissemination activities to those outside of academia. Check out the T-Post magazine t-shirt with an article written by a student at Umeå University inspired by my rigs-to-reefs research. It’s not often that scholarly work gets made into a t-shirt! “Rigger bør bli rev” [Rigs should become reefs],…
The Return of Native Nordic Fauna A research blog about reintroduction, restoration, and history
Review of Harold Fox, Dartmoor’s Alluring Uplands: Transhumance and Pastoral Management in the Middle Ages, Agricultural History 89, 114–115. Review of Tom Williamson, Environment, Society and Landscape in Early Medieval England, Canadian Journal of History 49, 487-488. Review of John Aberth, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of…
Bell D., Hjältén J., Nilsson C. Jørgensen D. and Johansson T. 2015. Forest restoration to attract a putative umbrella species, the white-backed woodpecker, benefited saproxylic beetles. Ecosphere 6(12):278. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00551.1 [Open Access] Note: I was one of the supervisor’s for D. Bell’s PhD work. I was involved in the conceptual development and…